1. Prepare dipping sauce and set aside. 2. Heat oil in 12-inch nonstick skillet over medium heat until hot. Add mushrooms and garlic; cook and stir 3 to 5 minutes or until tender and liquid has ...

For New Year's Eve -- tonight or Chinese New Year's Eve on Feb. 14 -- you can't beat the aroma and allure of cooking pot stickers, Chinese dumplings. From my Chinese bridesmaid, I learned the secret ...

Compared to cities like San Francisco and Vancouver, B.C., which have large Chinese communities, Chinese New Year in Portland tends to be pretty low-key. Restaurants in Chinatown offer specials, and ...

Most Asian cuisines include dumplings, and Chinese-style pan-fried pot stickers are among the most familiar and popular in this country. Often filled with seasoned pork and/or shrimp and vegetables, ...

For me, potstickers are the best litmus test of a Chinese kitchen. Each bite of an artfully made pot-sticker should explode in your mouth in a symphony of flavor and pleasing texture. The top of the ...

The aroma will make you salivate. The smell is a little acrid, salty, and somehow all mouthwatering umami; it’s cooked soy sauce. The table is worn formica, mostly clean from being wiped1000 times, ...

A pork-filled northern Chinese pot sticker is a wondrous thing, softly pliant above and glossy-crisp below, maddeningly fragrant, trickling juice at the merest touch of a chopstick. The pot stickers ...

I love pan-fried dumplings so much that the owner of the Asian restaurant I frequented almost weekly in college began calling me “Guo tie,” Mandarin Chinese for pot sticker. I wasn’t sure how I felt ...

Store-bought pot stickers are sold in the frozen section of many supermarkets, Trader Joe’s and Costco; they can be deep fried, pan fried, boiled or steamed. In most cases they are pan fried, and the ...

First things first: The Pot Sticker is not about potstickers. If you head to this Chinatown restaurant expecting divine dumplings, you will be disappointed. Despite its name, the Pot Sticker ...